sim to real

Microsoft Research has presented an object-centric residual reinforcement learning method that trains a lightweight corrective robot policy entirely in simulation, adds it to a frozen vision-language-action model, and reports zero-shot real-robot gains across five manipulation tasks from 42...

Microsoft Research’s Rho‑alpha marks a decisive move to embed large, multimodal AI into physical robots — translating everyday language into coordinated, tactile-aware actions on dual arms and humanoidanoid platforms and promising to reframe how manufacturers, integrators, and researchers think...